The Program Directors Committee consists of Program Directors and two student representatives. The director of the MD/PhD Program is an ex officio member. The Committee makes recommendations to the Deans and the Executive Committee concerning the effectiveness and initiation of GSBS policies, including:
- policy that affects the function of the Graduate School
- policy that affects the structure and governance of Graduate Programs
- approval of new graduate programs
Members for the 2020-21 academic year:
- Claire Singletary, Chair, Genetic Counseling
- Menashe Bar-Eli, Cancer Biology
- Rebecca Berdeaux, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
- Jichao Chen, Genetics and Epigenetics
- Yulun He, Student Member, Medical Physics
- Paulina Horton, Student Member, Immunology
- Nayun Kim, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Liang Li, Quantitative Sciences
- Dianna Milewicz, MD/PhD Program (ex officio)
- William Plunkett, Therapeutics and Pharmacology
- Qingchun Tong, Neuroscience
- Richard Wendt, Medical Physics
- Pamela Wenzel, Immunology
GSBS Deans:
- Michael Blackburn
- Patricia Cruz Bruesch
- Bill Mattox
- Cherilynn Shadding
- Eric Swindell
Meeting dates for 2020-2021:
- November 10, 2020
- February 9, 2021
- April 13, 2021
- July 13, 2021
- September 14, 2021